Alan Dearn
10:30 AM
We were sitting on the grass at the side of Knox Grammar School's main oval in 1987; it must have been in my final few weeks of school. The memory of an awkward moment with Mr Fotis the religion teacher sitting right behind me popped back into my mind when I saw his name deeply implicated in evidence before the Royal Commission into sexual abuse.

Leonard Lee
10:15 AM
My flesh crawls with revulsion; my stomach heaves. My imagination is on overload. It haunts me. I cannot get the idea of the execution by firing squad of the Bali Nine duo Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran out of my mind

Alan Stokes12:17 AM
Sending grieving children to Disneyland to find joy out of sorrow seems a wonderful idea for a charity. But can James Thomas turn his dream born from personal tragedy into a success?

12:12 AM
Leonard Nimoy was the sonorous, gaunt-faced actor who won a worshipful global following as Mr Spock, the resolutely logical human-alien first officer of the Starship Enterprise in the television and movie juggernaut Star Trek.

Toni Hassan
10:45 PM
One of the few Canberra residents allowed to visit asylum seekers on Nauru was approached by an eight-year-old girl last year. In a small voice the child asked: ‘‘Why am I in prison?’’

Michael Kirby
3:00 PM
What would Sydney University's long-time, and formidable, Registrar (1955-1967), Miss Margaret Telfer, make of an occasion celebrating 'gay' and 'queer' students arriving in droves at the University of Sydney? Of the Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor actually welcoming them in the hallowed precincts of the Great Hall? And of that strange rainbow flag floating above the clock tower in the quadrangle? "Has the world been turned on its head, Sir Stephen?", she would no doubt ask Sir Stephen Roberts the University's grumpy Vice-Chancellor.

Geoff Slattery
3:00 PM
Australian greyhounds are the best in the world, as are our breeders and trainers; all deserve the best administration with a national perspective, vision and power to manage their rights, and the rights of all those who rely on this industry for their livelihood.

Chris Townsend
11:12 AM
We accept that other countries follow different laws to Australia. Considering Andrew Chan’s and and Myuran Sukumaran’s nine-year plight on death row, questions about an arbitrary nature within the Indonesian justice system and if the draconian decision carries a message beg to be reflected upon, writes Chris Townsend.

Peter Hartcher
The rise of the barbarians of the so-called Islamic State is rightly concentrating a lot of time and energy in the civilised world. Yet while we remain preoccupied with this new danger, the old ones are rampant.